Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)

Where this market publishes its structure

• CNCF Cloud Native Landscape (cncf/landscape landscape.yml @3a7d378b18) machine-readable, 2,431 entries, 722 members, 259 CNCF projects; 562 providers linked
• Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (landscape.yml Special / KCSP) machine-readable, 195 KCSPs; 30 providers linked
• CNCF Certified Kubernetes conformance (cncf/k8s-conformance PRODUCT.yaml @85d26a419e) machine-readable, 1,579 submissions, 185 vendors, v1.37 newest; 41 providers linked
• FinOps Foundation FOCUS data generators (focus.finops.org/data-generators) machine-readable, 19 listed; 15 linked
• FOCUS tooling adopters (focus.finops.org/adoption/tooling) not machine-readable: client-rendered; no list in the HTML
• FinOps Foundation members (finops.org/members) and FinOps Landscape (finops.org/landscape) not machine-readable: members client-rendered; landscape behind a password wall
• FinOps Certified Platform register not machine-readable: finops.org/certifications/finops-certified-platform 404 (2026-10-15)
• CNCF Certified Kubernetes AI Platform (cncf/k8s-ai-conformance) not machine-readable: not read this pass; landscape subcategory read as a listing only

Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.

Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io

Derived 2026-10-15 from the 138 providers in this market we could resolve in the catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.

share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py

Leaders by position (provisional)

Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.

builds-on 20 · publishes apps on other platforms' stores

covered 2 · reached mainly through aggregators

regulated 1 · named in a regulator's register or partners' contracts

standard 93 · listed by a voluntary standard's own directory

mixed 2 · no single mode dominates

long-tail 2 · reached only through iPaaS bridges

distribution 2 · only sells through cloud marketplaces

undeclared 16 · declares nothing we can read: no number

Shape adoption report only — not weighted

Pattern: register. Shape gravity (counted by company, one edge per provider, the best evidence kept): 40. Convergence in the cohort: 13 of 136 (9.6%) — cohort members (minus the anchor's family, mediators and rival shapes) with at least one compatible edge to the shape, read from evidence.

kubernetes-api anchor Kubernetes · 40 adopters, 41 declared by the provider

By degree: . By evidence: conformance-register 41.

• In the cohort, declaring nothing we can read: Tray.ai, Datadog APM, Svix, Anysphere Cursor.com, Apigee, Azure Data Factory, Cohesity, Laravel, Densify, Azure Cost Management, DoiT, Tricentis, NVIDIA NIM, Workato, BrowserStack, Common Room, UiPath, Databricks Asset Bundles, Bonitasoft, Speakeasy, Env0, Stack Moxie, Routebase, Talend, Mendix, FinOps Foundation, SUSE, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Kubernetes, Canonical, Helm, Argo CD, Envoy, Linkerd, Crossplane, Upbound, HashiCorp, Terraform, Backstage, Humanitec, Komodor, Kubecost, Vantage, Cloudability, Apptio, CloudHealth, Harness Cloud Cost Management, Akka, Alibaba Sentinel, Amnic, Ansible, Apollo Config, Apollo GraphQL, AWS App Mesh, BentoML, Carvel, CAST AI, Chaos Mesh, Choreo, CloudChipr, CloudZero, Dapr, Devtron, Diagrid, Docker, Encore, Finout, Flux CD, Grafana Tempo, gRPC, Hatchet, Haystack / deepset, Infracost, Inngest, Istio, Jaeger, Jetify, K6, Keploy, Kestra, Koyeb, Kratos, Kubeflow Pipelines, Kubeshop, Kuma, LangGraph, Lumigo, Microcks, Azure Pipelines, Minimus, MockServer, Nacos, Nitric, nOps, Open Service Mesh, OpenCost, OpenKruise, PerfectScale, Plakar, Prefect, Promptfoo, Pulumi, Quarkus, Qumulo, Rook, Rundeck, ScaleOps, Sedai, Selenium, Service Fabric, Signadot, Spacelift, Spin, Spot by NetApp, Spring Framework, StormForge, TeamCity, Telepresence, Union.ai, Werf, Zipkin
• Evidence ladder: conformance-register > own-docs > own-contract > own-blog > ae-structural. Degrees: full | declared-subset | declared-unqualified | interoperable-subset | same-vocabulary-own-path.